Deputy Marchenko is expelled from United Russia. He voted against the budget and accuses the party of lying

The Ethics Commission of United Russia, headed by Valentina Tereshkova, recommended the exclusion of State Duma deputy Yevgeny Marchenko from the party, since he voted against the adoption of the three-year budget in the first reading. reported on the party website.

Earlier, Marchenko said that he had voted against, because he could not ask Finance Minister Anton Siluanov a question about the construction of a high-tech pediatrics center on the basis of the Pediatric University in St. Petersburg, whose leadership has been seeking funds from the budget for four years and has asked Marchenko for assistance in this. University Rector Dmitry Ivanov confirmed “Kommersant”, that he turned to Yevgeny Marchenko with this question, and explained that the clinic needs a new building, since the current one was built back in 1905.

Meanwhile, the first deputy head of the United Russia faction Vyacheslav Makarov at a meeting of the ethics committee statedthat he contacted the rector of the university Dmitry Ivanov and he allegedly said that he had not communicated with Marchenko about the construction of a pediatric center.

Marchenko himself, in a conversation with The insider, was outraged that the party was putting pressure on Ivanov. “I am outraged that they took the director of the pediatric university Ivanov Dmitry Olegovich, they pushed them through now, and he refuses his words that he addressed me. The day before yesterday I docked it with the journalist of the newspaper “Kommersant” Maria, she wrote an article about this situation. She called Ivanov and interviewed him, where he confirmed that he had contacted me, that the issue had not been resolved for four years. The article contains all this. Now he was intimidated and the man is already reneging on his words. They are already going, let’s say, for everything, just to prove their case. They even put pressure on the respected doctor, ”Marchenko said.

Marchenko considers the decision to expel him from the party unfair and intends to continue working as a single-mandate deputy. “I think the decision is unfair. They overdo it with punishment. I have no grudge against anyone, I will work as a non-partisan one-mandate. I will try to build new relations with the faction taking into account these newly discovered circumstances, ”Marchenko said.